Movies: João Bénard da Costa
- 2007
To Each His Own Cinema (2007)
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Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the...
- 1994
Blind Man's Bluff (1994)
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A blind beggar is robbed of his chest of money. The theft leads to a dramatic situation in the street where he begs every day....
- 1990
No, or the Vain Glory of Command (1990)
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Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier recounts them while marching through a Portuguese African colony in 1973....
- 1981
Francisca (1981)
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The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace....
- 1984
City of Pirates (1984)
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A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, travels to a tiny island of pirates and encounters a man with multiple personalities....
- 1982
Island of Loves (1982)
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This film depicts the life of the 19th-century Portuguese writer Wenceslau De Moraes by means of nine ancient ballads from China. The writer married a Chinese woman after he left his wife and family to go live in Macao. Later, he moved to Japan where...
- 2001
Fragile as the World (2001)
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An impossible love. Two young people who love each other. Vera and João can’t find in this life the space, time, or identity to resolve their love story....
- 1993
Hovering Over the Water (1993)
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Laura Rossellini, a widow from Rome, vacations on the Algarve coast one hot summer. One day while sunbathing, she finds a wounded man named Robert drifting in the surf on a rubber raft. She takes him home, and, after he is revived, learns his story. ...
- 2009
The Invisible Collection (2009)
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A story about art and educated men, and how their art and culture reveal themselves useless in the face of the harsh realities of the 20th century life....
- 1981
Oxalá (1981)
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A man exiled in Paris makes various trips to Portugal after the Carnation Revolution. Each trip is represented by a woman....
- 2000
Word and Utopia (2000)
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The story of Father Antonio Vieira, a 17th-century Portuguese priest who lived in Brazil and worked for better treatment of the Indians and to abolish slavery....
- 1994
Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista (1994)
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The city during the beginning of cinema. The typical city at the time of the dictatorship. The New Lisbon of the New Cinema. Lisbon after the Revolution. The white city of foreigners. A geographical and moviegoer screenplay of Lisbon through the imag...
- 2002
The Uncertainty Principle (2002)
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Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family....
- 2000
Love Torn in Dreams (2000)
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A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A group of blind children tries to open the eyes of the unbelievers to the Christian faith. Retired nuns who open a brothel, to pay the running costs of the...
- 1995
The Convent (1995)
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The journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portuguese convent where he expects to find the documents needed to prove his theory: Shakespeare was born in Spain; not in England....
- 1986
The Satin Slipper (1986)
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During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and go to America. Meanwhile Prouhèze is sent to Africa to rule the city of Mogador. Ten years later Rodrigo leaves Amer...
- 1988
Tall Stories (1988)
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12-year-old Miguel is punished because he has not done his homework properly: he must stay at his aunt's inn for holidays. First bored, then a friendship begins between him and other inn's regular holiday-makers, like maid Luisa or fisherman João. Bu...
- 1987
The Mountains of the Moon (1987)
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This visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki Shikibu. Set in modern Portugal, Joao (Luis Miguel Cintra) is a left-wing political leader and ladies man with a bright future. His ex-wife Isabel (Manue...
- 1981
The Territory (1981)
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A small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods. Foolishly unprepared to deal with Mother Nature and their situation, they wander around lost for days and weeks, becoming more and more fatigued, hungry, and desperate. A bri...
- 2006
Magic Mirror (2006)
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Luciano, fresh out of jail, was taken by his brother, Flórido, to serve in the home of wealthy Alfreda. He was surprised when she told him that her greatest desire was to see the Virgin Mary. Now comes this rich land owner with her sublime pretension...